Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757491AbaAHVI6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:08:58 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:41221 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757210AbaAHVIo (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:08:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1389201738-31406-1-git-send-email-lpapp@kde.org> <20140108180747.GT31886@sirena.org.uk> <20140108190758.GY31886@sirena.org.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 21:08:44 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: iamEaDN_2HwexSeANPXe0HGvZqw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos From: Laszlo Papp To: Mark Brown Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:59:57PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >>> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:22:18PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> >>> >> - * (eg, a clear on read interrupt status register). If this >>> >> + * (e.g. a clear on read interrupt status register). If this >> >>> > This is somewhat outdated orthorgraphy... >> >>> Pardon ? >> >> It's not that common to write it as an abbreviation (even though it is >> one) and for some random reason you've decided to drop the comma which >> is standard. > > Cannot agree. I see this effectively almost anywhere, and I even asked > this on IRC from native English speaker in #English @ freenode who > were in an agreement with me as far as I can tell. > > That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue > over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change. Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I wrote in the commit message... Oh yes, and one more factual data in here: lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l 3447 lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l 18 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/